Battle of the Ports

[Yakumo]

I've yet to write the text bar I will do that tonight after my birthday tea but will I be sober enough to follow the spell checker actually, the Toki show shouldn't have had any spelling errors in it.

[Nu-Eclipse]

I've yet to write the text bar I will do that tonight after my birthday tea but will I be sober enough to follow the spell checker actually, the Toki show shouldn't have had any spelling errors in it.

It does.

And happy birthday!

[Yakumo]

Thanks dude. Bummer about the spelling errors though. I bet the next video will have some too even though I do use a spell checker on word.

[Yakumo]

Well, there were a few issues with YouTube encoding the video but after 15 hours it's finally gone live.

Battle of the Ports - Raiden. And yes, it is pronounced Rai-den, not Ray-den

[Nu-Eclipse]

I've never really gone in for arranged versions of game soundtracks, though I understand why/how they came about thanks to the advent of CD as a console gaming format.

OST should be used over Arranged everytime unless hardware makes it a no-no. That's why PS1 port pips the FM Towns port for me - more faithful to the coin-op.

[Yakumo]

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[Yakumo]

For those who've not seen it yet, Battle of the Ports - Altered Beast

[Jaz]

Spectrum, what were you thinking. Such a pile of ****.

[DeathAdder]

The nasties on that Master System version are so cute.

[DeathAdder]

I love the way the zombies seem to be jiving towards the player in the Spectrum one.

I quite like this game - I can see its faults, but the charm does work on me. It was so irritating when one of the white two-headed dogs got past you, and it was very easy to let that happen.

[Yakumo]

Oh man, trying to get the two headed white dogs on any of the home computer ports is a right pain in the arse thanks to the piss poor AI not choosing kick when it's obvious you want to kick the dog.

[QualityChimp]

Ha ha ha! Yes! You go to kick the dog, so you do a crouch kick and you kick the sky!

I actually like Altered Beast, but I think that was mainly the transformation animations.
Who wouldn't want to turn into a monster after eating giant glowing pearls that you kicked out of two-headed dogs?

[DeathAdder]

Stamps feet impatiently, glares at calendar, shouts in an unsubtle voice "I wonder what day it is".

Or, to put it another way, looking forward to the next BOTP.

[Yakumo]

Sorry dude. This Saturday I released a new Retro Core but there will be a new Battle of the Ports coming on Monday or Tuesday. This weeks game will be from Namco.

This weeks video - Retro Core 5 - Volume 4 - Vertical shooters

[Solar]

Sod the games, where did you get your t-shirt? I want one